Director of Engineering - Infrastructure

This role will require being full-time onsite at our Palo Alto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a large, strategic organization composed of multiple engineering teams and managers, ensuring a clear impact on the success of BitGo.
• Own the success of the Infrastructure department, making decisions that consistently drive the achievement of departmental and company OKRs.
• Be accountable for the overall technical integrity, operational health, and fiscal responsibility of our core infrastructure. This includes upholding a high technical bar while making pragmatic, data-driven decisions on budget and resource allocation.
• Ensure the organization is resilient, responsive, and able to quickly address changing business conditions or critical production issues.
• Collaborate effectively with senior leaders across engineering, product, security, and finance to break down organizational silos and align the infrastructure roadmap with business priorities.
• Define and communicate a multi-year technical vision and strategy for Infrastructure that aligns with BitGo’s ambitious growth plans in the crypto fintech space.

Skills & Experience: 

We are looking for leaders who share and practice our values: open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship. We are looking for individuals who share our vision and mission: deliver trust in digital assets. 

Required

• 10+ years of experience in a DevOps or Site Reliability role
• 4+ years of experience successfully leading geographically distributed teams of 4+ engineers
• Hands-on experience with managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Strong experience working with Kubernetes workloads in production environments
• Strong experience working with CI/CD tooling
• Strong familiarity with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki and ELK
• Strong desire to automate where possible
• Experience in participating in and organizing on-call rotations
• Proven experience sourcing and hiring top engineering talent
• Experience working in a cross-team environment, collaborating with and enabling other functions to drive broader departmental goals
• A self-starter capable of adapting quickly and being decisive
• Engineering degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Effective written and verbal communication skills

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

Here are some of the benefits* of working at BitGo:

• Competitive base salary, bonus and stock options
• 100% company paid health insurance for employee, partner and dependents
• 4% 401k company match
• Paid parental leave, paid vacation
• Free commute and parking pass; 5 min from Caltrain
• Free custom lunches, dinners and snacks 
• Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
• Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment
• Benefits vary based on location

Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you’ll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $260,000 - $320,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined below are also a part of this role's package.